Went live on a site today called Wellness Truth Network — http://www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com.
Am considering doing some writing for them too as I am alarmed by what the FDA and FTC do to the providers of natural health solutions.
The guys who started this site, Bob and Robyn Held, developed, tried and have had amazing success with a natural solution to Diabetes. Predictably, the FTC came after them. Now they are going to court. read more
Hans Zimmer is a very well known, and widely respected, composer in Hollywood. He won the Oscar for The Lion King, and has scored movies like Gladiator, Mission Impossible, Rain Man, Thelma & Louise, Kung Fu Panda, The Last Samurai, the Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, Sherlock Holmes, Inception, and lots more.
He’s also a good human rights supporter and a donor to humanitarian causes.
On Dec 13, ACLU has a big awards ceremony where they are presenting him with an award for his human rights work.
Bonnie Abaunza, who works closely with me on TheCommunity.com, is the head of his philanthropic division and his foundation. She called me tonight desperately needing a nice “tribute ad” for the booklet for the award. read more
Okay you can rest easy now. There’s about to be a place on the Internet for your dog and cat to blog.
Seriously. It’s a job we’re the developers on.
I had to change a few things about the name because we’re not ready to have you log on yet. But I will say two things. The programmers are having a ball on it so far. And we’re pushing the envelope on WordPress, which makes it a really fun job.
Okay so maybe this is only intensely interesting to a few. But I did Thanksgiving dinner this year. A first.
Okay so I called Whole Foods and said I need a turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, green beans and cranberry. Friends brought pies and I opened a $100 bottle of wine.
But I brought out the good china and crystal for it. That counts for something. Anyway, as it turned out, it was a fabulous meals. And none of my friends seemed to have a prerequisite that I stand over a cutting board chopping celery to make it happen.
Well here’s something I bet you didn’t know.
The White House doesn’t have an email address. We’re trying to mobilize something for the Main Street Brigade, letting users send Obama an electronic post card on an issue. And I’ve run into a glitch in executing it.
It seems the White House doesn’t want email.
Now this is an American tradition. If we don’t like something, it used to be we’d flood them with letters. Just to remind them of who they work for. Then phone calls. Then it was faxes.
So now shouldn’t it logically be email? read more
I wish I had the courage to leave Facebook. But I don’t. I’m too afraid I’ll miss something.
But I’m having a really unfortunate realization on Facebook. I’m realizing that I don’t like my friends that much.
Well no, I like my real friends. One in particular — Marshall — probably keeps me on Facebook all by himself, as he posts things that are honestly really interesting. And Doug posts real tips on social media.
But I have “friends of friends” — lots of them — who ended up on my friends list because either I or they figured that because we have 48 mutual friends we must be friends by definition. Or people who read me on the Huffington Post or found me on thecommunity.com or here, and decide to add me to the list of people they like to track. Some people I “friend” because I really like or admire something they do. read more
I destroyed my web site last night.
Over the last week or so I have been playing around with a color combination I liked. Put it up on the site and surveyed a few friends. Enough of them didn’t like it that I was taking it down. Thought I’d take a new approach.
I uploaded a bunch of new php files to the site and activated them.
The whole site went blank. After many attempts to fix, it just sat there staring at me accusatorily, blank. read more